Exhibit Opening, "A Change of Worlds," 1/28

[C. Thrush]

Friends,

I'd like to invite each of you to attend the upcoming opening of a new
exhibit at the Museum of History & Industry in Seattle.  The ceremonial
opening will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 28, and will
include dancing and drumming by the Suquamish Tribal Dance Troupe and an
address by Upper Skagit elder and Lushootseed language activist Vi
(Taqwseblu) Hilbert.

The exhibit itself is the largest exhibit of Puget Sound Native American
history ever mounted.  It includes oral histories, photographs, cultural
objects, maps, and music, and challenges the notion that Puget Sound
Indian cultures have become extinct while also tracking the dramatic
transformations in Native life over the past century and a half.

I hope each of you can make it to the opening, and if not, that you can
find time to come and see the exhibit, which runs until May.  "A Change of
Worlds," along with some of the other new exhibits at the Museum of
History & Industry, is charting a new direction for the Museum's
interpretation of Seattle and Pacific Northwest history.

The Museum is located across the Montlake Cut from Husky Stadium.
Admission to the opening is free, but please RSVP if you can to
206-324-1125.

Thanks for your time,

Coll Thrush

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Coll-Peter Thrush, M.A.
Mangels Fellow in Public History
Graduate Program in History		
University of Washington, Seattle	
ishriver at u.washington.edu
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